East and West

by C. Northcote Parkinson

Paperback, 1965

Status

Available

Call number

901.9

Collection

Publication

Mentor / New American Library (1965), Edition: New Ed, Paperback, 284 pages

Description

The author reviews history from Sumerian days to the present time to show that throughout its course, East and West have alternately been dominant, the periodic decline of one civilization creating a cultural vacuum that was filled by the adjacent rising culture.

User reviews

LibraryThing member DinadansFriend
Cyril N. Parkinson, most famous for his sociological studies of business, was also a trained historian, and wrote this interesting survey of the periods of Western or Eastern dominance of the Eastern hemisphere. His conclusion, that either the Russians or the Chinese would eventually oust the USA
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from promenence in that region, was food for thought at the time, and seems reasonable today.
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Language

Original publication date

1963

Physical description

284 p.

ISBN

0451003365 / 9780451003362
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